Richard Popp is Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) at Stanford University. Dr. Popp is a clinical Cardiologist who focused his research on development of all forms of ultrasound in cardiology with more than 300 scientific publications. Dr. Popp was Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Stanford from 1995-2000. He continues to teach in the Stanford Biodesign Innovation Program. He has been the Chair the Conflict of Interest Committee at the Medical School since 2000. Dr. Popp was President of the American College of Cardiology, the American Society of Echocardiography and the Association of University Cardiologists. He is the previous Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Cardiovascular Diseases Subspecialty Board. He has received several special recognitions including The Rambam Award in Israel in 2012, the Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology in 2016 and the Albion Walter Hewlett Award of Stanford University Department of Medicine in 2017.